Wheat planting is up 25 pc up to this point this rabi season at 255.76 lakh hectares; oilseeds land is up 9 pc

Wheat land has expanded by 25% such long ways in the continuous rabi season at 255.76 lakh hectares mostly in higher planting regions in Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh, the public authority information showed. The region under inclusion for wheat, which is the significant yield in the rabi (winter-planted) season, remained at 203.91 lakh hectares in a similar period last year.
Expansion in the wheat planting region foreshadows well for the country as the homegrown creation had down to 106.84 million tons in the 2021-22 yield year (July-June) from 106.84 million tons in the earlier year.